Vitaminccontent of vegetables. Part VI. Tomatoes

✍ Scribed by Baker, L. C. ;Parkinson, T. L.

• Book ID: 102326254
• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 1947
• Weight: 219 KB
• Volume: 66
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0368-4075
• DOI: 10.1002/jctb.5000660101

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The concentration of vitamin C in individual tomatoes shows considerable variation from fruit to fruit. Average values indicate that ripe fruits arc richer in vitamin C than unripe fruits and that outdoor grown tomatoes are richer than those grown in greenhouses; no significant differences occurred between the varieties studied. Some of the individual fruits analysed in 1945 were found to contain a comparatively high concentration of dehydroascorbic acid.